Purchasing the Political System

HERE IT COMES AGAIN, starting all over again, just like clockwork, the famed and never ending American presidential election season, which, as mentioned, lasts forever. I keep wondering why on earth Jeb Bush is my current favorite candidate. Maybe its just because nobody else, not even Jeb himself, has formally announced. Let's hope that's the reason, and hope further that in due time I come to my senses. I usually do, eventually. Its just that Jeb seems to have something in his personality which enables him to see other people's points of view, and to be flexible, to compromise. Jeb is currently raising money, big money, for what looks like a soon to be announced presidential run. Hillary could steal me away in a heartbeat, so, Jeb had better get busy. Heaven only knows how much it'll cost this time, the rising price of the presidency. Obama paid, what, a cool billion? Where does the madness end? Potentially, it ends with nine little words, written into the U.S. code of laws: "the sale and purchase of political advertising is prohibited". But who wants simple, effective solutions? That would take all the fun out of the big game, and force us all to behave responsibly, seeking out information on candidates on our own, pressuring media outlets of all sorts to provide the information, without profiting grossly therefrom. But at least American political system of elective offices wouldn't merely be a matter, as it currently is, of the corporate oligarchy purchasing and owning the political system by giving the money to the candidates with which the candidates purchase the offices, by beguiling the beguilable electorate with a choice between one corporate candidate, or another corporate candidate.